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Ego. The Other City. Through The Looking Glass

Part 2 Project 2017
Nicola Stone
 Arts University Bournemouth | UK
Ego. The Other City was a project about identity and the emergence of an individual’s ego following the parameters set out by Jacques Lacan; the French philosopher. The project described the process in which an individual will psychologically go through once confronted with their own image, their other, their repeated self within a mirror. This self-consideration triggers ambitions for change and desires of a future self, a future city.

Tutor(s)
Ed Frith
2017
Ego. The Other City model became a physical interpretation of my efforts to begin to understand Boscombe’s current city ego. It’s current quirks, characteristics, built form, and its desires and ambitions for change. In this model Boscombe’s repeated city
Guided by my previous research and models evaluating the desires and ambitions of Boscombe’s city I began to redesign its most troubled area, the heart of the city, it’s shopping district and High Street by proposing a new master plan for the quarter. Bos
As my obsessions with repetition and mirroring the opposite grew, I began to focus my Thesis into detailing one of the three buildings I had set out within my master plan. I wanted to begin to almost collect; the most valued historic entity with the high
As within the mirror there is always ‘another’ one that is twinned but is psychologically different, stands at a distance from its original, almost alienated from itself. Me but not me. I wanted to explore this psychological paradigm encompassing the emer
The entire project always housed a duality. There was always and alternate meaning to the models produces and conceptual theories experimented, always another presented alongside; alienating itself further; just as is represented within a mirror. My final
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